SOLUTION: 300 chocolates are distributed equally among certain group of students if there are 10 more students 60 more chocolates would have been required what is original number of stud

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Question 1000587: 300 chocolates are distributed equally among certain group of students if there are 10 more students 60 more chocolates would have been required what is original number of students ? a 40 b 45 c 50 d 55 e 60
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) About Me  (Show Source):
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Try it this way:
THREE HUNDRED chocolates are distributed equally among certain group of students. If there are 10 more students, 60 more chocolates would have been required. What is original number of students ?

Let the original number of students be the quantity, p.
Chocalates per student originally is 300%2Fp.

The hypothetical 10 more students requiring the assumed same ratio of chocolates per student:
%28300%2B60%29%2F%28p%2B10%29
should be the same as
300%2Fp.

highlight_green%28%28300%2B60%29%2F%28p%2B10%29=300%2Fp%29.
That would be most of what you want to be able to arrange. After this, only the algebra steps to solve for p is needed.